Until Dawn’s first reviews are in, and it doesn’t seem like this horror flick will survive the night, much less the critical responses.

The video game-based adaptation hits theaters today, April 25th, and has a mediocre Rotten Tomatoes score of 62% from the critics’ Tomatometer. Other critical reviews of the feature include Comicbook.com’s Evan Valentine, who labels Until Dawn as “a missed opportunity” that is “unable to carve out its own identity or work within the original game universe.” MovieWeb’s Julian Roman spoke on his experience watching the film, stating that the film “will have you laughing out loud for all the wrong reasons.” Explaining that the film “doubles down on tired genre tropes as the requisite group of hapless Gen Z mincemeat basically chuck themselves in the grinder.” Roman calls the plot “a rinse and repeat slaughter” that mirrors Happy Death Day.

But it seems that not all critical reviews of Until Dawn are bad ones; Screen Rant’s Mary Kassel wrote in her review that the feature “takes the trope of the time loop and raises the stakes to immerse us in a thrilling dynamic world of characters we can’t stop rooting for.” Toisto.net’s Joonatan Itkonen labels the flick as “a classy throwback to simpler times” that “knows who it plays for.”

The horror adaptation was directed by David F. Sandberg with a screenplay from Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler that focuses on “an original story set apart from the mythology built” in the video game verse. That could be one of the reasons critics have had such an adverse reaction to the feature. Nevertheless, the film follows “a group of friends who head into a remote valley in search of answers following the disappearance of Clover’s sister.” The group finds themselves being killed off one by one, only for them to wake up and be right back at the start. Concluding that they are in an endless time loop, the group is “forced to relive their deaths over and over with a different killer each time,” with the only way for them to escape being to make it until dawn.

The ensemble cast includes Ella Rubin as Clover, Michael Cimino as Max, Odessa A’zion as Nina, Ji-young Yoo as Megan, and Blemont Cameli as Abel. Maia Mitchell also stars in the feature, portraying Melanie, Clover’s missing sister.

It is still too early to tell what the true response to Until Dawn is, but right now it is not looking good. But maybe the feature will survive the night, being saved by audience reviews instead of critical ones.